Something Constructive Out of Chaos: Talking with Suzanne Koven
Suzanne Koven discusses her new memoir, LETTER TO A YOUNG FEMALE PHYSICIAN.
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Posts Tagged: mentors
The Lure of the Process: Talking with Chang-rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee discusses his new novel, MY YEAR ABROAD.
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The Mentor Series: Emily J. Smith and Chloe Caldwell
Emily J. Smith interviews her mentor, Chloe Caldwell.
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Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
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The Mentor Series: Michael Torres and Richard Robbins
Michael Torres interviews his mentor, Richard Robbins.
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On Love and Dogs: Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Greenwell tells his story on the narrator’s terms, and that makes all the difference.
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Samuel Barlow
Writer Samuel Barlow talks with Cullen Thomas in the prison where he was held for half a century.
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The Mentor Series: Preti Taneja and Maureen Freely
Preti Taneja interviews her mentor, Maureen Freely.
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The Mentor Series: Leslie Jamison and Elizabeth McCracken
Leslie Jamison interviews her mentor, Elizabeth McCracken.
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The (Pleasurable) Anxiety of (Aesthetic) Influence: Bill Berkson’s A Frank O’Hara Notebook
Long after O’Hara died, O’Hara was still influencing, shaping, editing, Berkson.
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The Mentor Series: Vanessa Hua and Susan Straight
Vanessa Hua interviews her mentor, Susan Straight.
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The Mentor Series: Maggie Smith and Kathy Fagan
Poet Maggie Smith interviews her mentor, Kathy Fagan.
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The Mentor Series: Allie Rowbottom and Maggie Nelson
Debut author Allie Rowbottom interviews her mentor, Maggie Nelson.
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The Thread: Goddesses and Monsters
Let’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.
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The House of Fiction Has Many Rooms: Talking with Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez discusses her seventh novel, The Friend, her fondness for writing about animals, and the ways the literary world has changed.
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Everything as Story: A Conversation with Kendra Levin
Kendra Levin discusses her new book, The Hero Is You, her influential mentors, her career in publishing, and the creative struggles that led her to put writing aside for many years.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Faith Adiele
Faith Adiele discusses what it means to be a good literary citizen, the importance of decolonizing travel writing, and how she wants to change the way Black stories are being told.
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We love Girls Write Now, a community of professional women writers and media makers on a mission: for 18 years, their award-winning programs have provided creative and academic guidance, support, and opportunities for young writers in New York City. And the program is looking for its 2017-18 mentors!
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The PEN Center USA’s Emerging Voices Fellowship is open for applications through August 1. The fellowship is “a literary mentorship that aims to provide new writers, who are isolated from the literary establishment, with the tools, skills, and knowledge they need to launch a professional writing career.” PEN is seeking underrepresented writers without MFAs for this opportunity. […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: A Roundtable on Writing, Editing, and Race
With Lisa Factora-Borchers, Patrice Gopo, Jennifer Niesslein, Tamiko Nimura, and Deesha Philyaw.
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“I Want to Meet Poets”: My Search for Partners in Verse
A poetic friendship, a good one, is hardly ever something that requires a group.
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The Creative Writing Class That Changed My Life
One could sense this passion in all of us. It seemed to fill the classroom as if it were part of the oxygen.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #60: On Mentorship
In an empirically-preoccupied world, mentorship appears to be unscientific, impossible to quantify, and perhaps even sentimental.
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Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Sherwood Anderson and William and Faulkner. Henry James and Edith Warton. And now, X… and you! The Association of Writers & Writing Programs just announced the establishment of a mentorship program starting in September. As stated on their community page, they are giving special consideration to applicants of backgrounds “typically […]
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Of Farmers and Fathers
For reasons I’ll never understand, I am my father’s rooster. My life is filled with farmers. We find our farmers where our interests are, I guess.
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